[ardour-users] Ardour-2 on multi-user systems

[Joshua Parmenter]

I'll try it tomorrow morning. Thanks!

Josh

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Joshua Parmenter
joshp at u.washington.edu
Post-Doctoral Research Associate - Center for Digital Arts and  
Experimental Media
Raitt Hall - University of Washington
Seattle, Washington 98195

http://www.dxarts.washington.edu
http://www.realizedsound.net/josh/


On Mar 8, 2006, at 6:14 PM, Taybin Rutkin wrote:

> There is a .fonts.cache-1 file that is created in the home folder  
> the first time a gtk2 app is run.  Since we copied this system from  
> the Gimp.app program, could you test that program to see if it has  
> the same problem?  I can't think of why this would be happening.   
> It's supposed to only happen once.
>
> Taybin
>
> On Mar 7, 2006, at 8:16 PM, Joshua Parmenter wrote:
>
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> This is my first post, and thanks in advance for any assistance.
>>
>> I am trying to install Ardour on a multi-user Mac OS X system, where
>> the users all run off a network account. The copy of X11, Jack and
>> Ardour that are running are local to every machine, but every user
>> account is off the server. When I start Ardour, there is about 2
>> minutes of "font-caching", then about another 2 minutes before the
>> actual UI pops up. With repeated launching (even on the same machine)
>> this occurs. If we log into the machine as a local user, everything
>> starts up very quickly. Unfortunately, due to the lab structure, we
>> aren't able to give everyone local accounts.
>>
>> Is this just something that has to be dealt with? Or does anyone know
>> why the startup would take so long over the network? If so, any
>> suggestions on how to speed it up?
>>
>> Thanks for any help.
>>
>> Josh
>>
>> ******************************************
>> Joshua Parmenter
>> joshp at u.washington.edu
>> Post-Doctoral Research Associate - Center for Digital Arts and
>> Experimental Media
>> Raitt Hall - University of Washington
>> Seattle, Washington 98195
>>
>> http://www.dxarts.washington.edu
>> http://www.realizedsound.net/josh/
>>
>>
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